It has been great to see the children come back after the holiday with such enthusiasm. We have had a great week in Year 1!

World Book Day: Thursday 6th March 2025

This year's World Book Day theme at Chilton will be picture books.  We invite children to share their favourite book on this day if they wish. Children are invited to dress up as their favourite character from a book if they prefer.  We would like to remind families that there is no expectation for you to spend money on costumes.  An enjoyment of reading and sharing a story is our main aim for World Book Day. 

Book Fayre

The Chilton Book Fayre will arrive on Monday 10th March and run until Friday 14th March outside the Year 5 classrooms. Children will come home with a World Book Day book voucher.  These can be spent at the Book Fayre. Cash and online payments are also available, and a percentage of the monies raised will go towards funding more books for Chilton children. 

Local area walk for Year 1

On Thursday 27^th March, Year 1 will be going on a local area walk to consolidate some of the learning we will have completed in our thematic unit this term. We will send further details closer to the date.

Read, Write Inc.

This week in Read, Write Inc. we have been reviewing sounds we know and learning new sounds. We have continued to use our sounds to read and write words, phrases and sentences. In particular, we have been looking for special and chatty friends in our words, saying the sounds and reading the word. Any practise at home reading a word by finding the special pr chatty friends, saying the sounds and reading the word would be greatly appreciated! We have also been working hard on our handwriting and writing sentences with capital letters and full stops. On Friday, we completed a writing task linked to our PSHE learning from this week. We had to write about what makes a good storyteller.

Maths

This week in maths, we have been learning about position and direction. We started the week by learning about and using prepositions (in front of, in between, on top of etc). We then moved on to learning about and using the vocabulary of left, right, forward and backwards and we had great fun dancing to a song to practice this! At the end of the week, we learned about making turns in a clockwise and anticlockwise direction. We have had a great week learning about this!

Next week, we will be learning to add by regrouping into tens and ones.

Fact of the week

Our fact of the week this week is:

1+0=1

0+1=1

1-0=1

PSHE week

On Monday, we learned about the British Values and how these are important in the society we live in. We also learned about the 9 protected characteristics and focussed on Disability. We completed some great learning on this. We also spent time this week learning about what oracy is and why it is important. We focused on storytelling and what makes a good storyteller. We then used these skills to retell a familiar story and then had the challenge to use these skills to tell a made-up story in small groups.

  

Thematic

At the end of the week, we introduced the children to our thematic unit for this term: Explorers. We shared with them what we will be learning and discussed our Big Question: How do we know other countries are there? The children had some great ideas for this!

Next week, we will be learning about a range of common animals, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. We will use animals that they are likely to have seen in zoos or museums so that they have some experience of the animals. We will look at the work of Steve Irwin and David Attenborough. We will also be learning to describe and compare the basic structure of a range of different animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds).

Reading

Mondays – RWI books to be changed by an adult. Please could ALL reading wallets be put in the trays so that we can check who has earned a certificate.

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays – children can change their learning zone book (the one with the coloured sticker on). Please help them to have this book ready to change when they come into the classroom in the mornings. Thank you!

Children will bring home two books in their reading folders, one being a RWI home book. Children are expected to try and read this three times during the week to ensure they are building on their reading fluency. The RWI home books will be changed, by an adult, every Monday.

The other book (with the coloured sticker) should be changed independently by the child themselves (on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)- first thing in the morning is a great time to do this! These books can be changed as regularly as needed.

Please listen to your child read as much as possible at home and record this in their reading records. Every week, one child from each class will receive a reading certificate in an assembly.

Children will get a certificate for every 20 times they read so it is important that the reading record gets signed every time they read at home. BOTH RWI BOOKS AND THE LEARNING ZONE BOOKS CAN BE RECORDED IN THE READING RECORDS!

There will also be a sticker in your child’s reading record which will explain which skill they are working on with regards to their reading.

If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Love to Learn

We would like the children to practise the maths skills they have learned this week (using the vocabulary of forwards, backwards, left, right, clockwise turn, anticlockwise turn). You could play a game at home where you or your child hides an object and the other person gives directions to find the hidden object (e.g. 2 steps forwards, 1 step to the left, 3 steps backwards…)

You could take photos of this game to put into the Love to Learn books or just have fun completing it together!

Love to Learn books need to be returned on Wednesday each week.

Other news

PE is on a Tuesday afternoon. Children need to wear a plain white t-shirt, black or navy bottoms and a plain black or blue sweatshirt.

Read at 3 will take place each Friday at 3pm in Year 1 classrooms.

Dates to remember

6th March – World book day

10th – 14th March – Book fair

14th March 9 – 11am – Managing children’s behaviour workshop in the studio

21st March – Red nose day/Rock your socks day for Downs Syndrome awareness. This year Red Nose Day is celebrating its 40th anniversary, originating in 1985. We would like to invite children to come into school in 1980s dress up. Children are invited to wear odd socks as part of their outfit to show support for Rock your socks Downs Syndrome awareness day.

21st March – Parents invited into school from 3.15 to look at their child’s learning prior to parent teacher consultations

24th March – Parent teacher consultation week

27th March – Year 1 local area walk

2nd April at 9.05am – Easter Bonnet Parade for Reception, year 1 and year 2 in school hall

3rd April – Easter Egg Hunts in school

3rd April – Last day of term. School finishes at usual time.

If you would like to contact us, please feel free to email, alternatively we are available to catch at the end of the day or the start of the day by the door.

Team Cornflower: eloise.hall@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Team Sapphire: nicki.cotton@chiltonprimary.co.uk and elaine.howard@chiltonprimary.co.uk

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!

Miss Hall, Mrs Cotton and Mrs Howard